Quartus 15.1 crashing when going for Tools...License Setup

I personally use linux in a VM for driver development for SoC. I installed Centos 6.5 (based on red hat) and haven't had issues, I've run Quartus 14.1 on it as well, but not often. I have seen several complaints from Ubuntu and other Linux version users, but few from red hat (or derivitives) users. If they are solved its usually by adding stuff present in red hat but not in the other distro.

I think the path to Linux happiness with Quartus is to use a supported distro or something as close as possible. You're just borrowing trouble otherwise. After all the point is to do FPGA, not Linux maintenance.